THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER - online book

Original Illustrated Version By Mark Twain

first thing Tom heard on Fri­day morning was a glad piece of news—Judge Thatcher's family had come back to town the night before. Both Injun Joe and the treasure sunk into secondary importance for a moment, and Becky took the chief place in the boy's interest. He saw her and they had an exhausting good time playing " hi-spy" and "gully-keeper" with a crowd of their schoolmates. The day was completed and crowned in a pecul­iarly satisfactory way : Becky teased her mother to appoint the next day for the long-promised and long-delayed picnic, and she consented. The child's delight was boundless; and Tom's not more moderate. The invi­tations were sent out before sunset, and straightway the young folks of the